Dr. Lei Yang (杨磊)
Associate Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Biography
Lei Yang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in PolyU and Postdoc fellow in the School of Software, Tsinghua University. He received his BS degree in the School of Software and Ph.D degree in Department of Computer Science and Technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Email: lei.yang@polyu.edu.hk | CV (PDF)
Research Interests
- AIoT
- Physical Neural Networks
- Battery-free IoT & Backscatter
- AI for Wireless
- Mobile Computing & Intelligence
- Wireless Communication & Sensing
- Security & Privacy
Selected Publications
- City-Scale Radiance-Field Reconstruction via Mixture of Radio Experts. ACM MobiCom 2026.
- Deep-Soil Acoustic Backscatter Networking for Electrical Substation Grounding Assessment. ACM SIGCOMM 2026.
- Binary Optical Machine Learning: Million-Scale Physical Neural Networks with Nano Neurons. ACM MobiCom 2024.
- NeRF^2: Neural Radio-Frequency Radiance Fields. ACM MobiCom 2023 (Best Paper Runner-up).
- Empowering Smart Buildings with Self-Sensing Concrete for Structural Health Monitoring. ACM SIGCOMM 2022.
- RF-DNA: Large-Scale Physical-layer Identifications of RFIDs via Dual Natural Attributes. ACM MobiCom 2022.
- Cross-Frequency Communication: Near-Field Identification of UHF RFIDs with WiFi! ACM MobiCom 2018.
- Tagoram: Real-time Tracking of Mobile RFID Tags to High Precision Using COTS Devices. ACM MobiCom 2014 (Best Paper Award).
- See Through Walls with COTS RFID Systems! ACM MobiCom 2015.
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Teaching
- COMP5327 - Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing (Fall 2025)
- COMP3421 - Web Application Design and Development (Spring 2025)
- COMP5322 - Internet Computing and Applications (Fall 2025)
- COMP5323 - Web Database Technologies and Applications
- COMP4342 - Mobile Computing
Awards
- ACM MobiCom Best Paper Award (2014)
- ACM MobiCom Best Paper Runner-up (2023)
- IEEE SECON Best Paper Award (2020, 2023)
- ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award
Contact
Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email: lei.yang@polyu.edu.hk